set JAVA_HOME

[sandrocchio_0.1]

Hi there,
on a Suse 10.1 I'm trying to run JBoss 4 which at the startup gives me the following message

run.sh: Missing file: /lib/tools.jar
run.sh: Unexpected results may occur. Make sure JAVA_HOME points to a JDK and not a JRE.

ok, then I checked where actually the jdk was
/opt/jdk1.5.0_07

from the console
echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java

so, I tried to set the JAVA_HOME
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.5.0_07
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

just a quick check
which java
/opt/jdk1.5.0_07/bin/java
which javac
/opt/jdk1.5.0_07/bin/javac

fine.....I though
but as soon as log out and log in all the java enviroments back as were before.
What's going on? How can I solve my problem?
(how can I set that var for every user?)

[sacoskun]

The changes you have made to your environment variables are temporary and just for that session of the terminal.

If you would like to make the changes perminant, try to edit the file in

/etc/profile

and add your path.

[sandrocchio_0.1]

ok, I did more or less the same thing editing a file called /etc/profile.local and it works pretty fine.

So, now the JAVA_HOME env seems to be correct and when I try to run JBoss as myself I don't get anymore that error

Boss Bootstrap Environment

JBOSS_HOME: /etc/jboss-4.0.5.GA

JAVA: /opt/jdk1.5.0_07/bin/java

JAVA_OPTS: -Dprogram.name=run.sh -server -Xms128m -Xmx512m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000

CLASSPATH: /etc/jboss-4.0.5.GA/bin/run.jar:/opt/jdk1.5.0_07/lib/tools.jar

but when I try to run it as jboss (system user) using the command
sudo -u jboss ./run.sh
I still have the same problem.
run.sh: Missing file: /lib/tools.jar
run.sh: Unexpected results may occur. Make sure JAVA_HOME points to a JDK and not a JRE.
================================================== =======================

JBoss Bootstrap Environment

JBOSS_HOME: /etc/jboss-4.0.5.GA

JAVA: java

JAVA_OPTS: -Dprogram.name=run.sh -server -Xms128m -Xmx512m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000

CLASSPATH: /etc/jboss-4.0.5.GA/bin/run.jar:/lib/tools.jar

It seems that user can't get the enviroment which should be visible to everybody. I'm not sure if everybody includes system user as well.

[sacoskun]

Quite interesting, don't know about the profile.local file but profile file should be for any user on the system.
Good luck,